Exhibition and Experimental Publication
Produce a presentation
Way of disseminating your work – type of exhibition
Platform to showcase existing work – displaying what you do
· Integrate form and content
· Incorporate professional practice
· Express ideas through making
· Strategies of self-representation
· Interviews, conversations, manifestos, artist statements, abstracts
Unfolding, pop up book, different types of paper – non uniform – particular design
Hologram – etched onto pavement, billboards, guides and maps, flyers, series of things, collections of posters – catalogues, signs, digital display, screen-based text, on a monitor, series of invitations to events e.g. BANK – using invitations as publications, books, journals and diaries. Postcards sets e.g. Art and Language
· Concept giving
· Showing artwork
· Conceptual perspective on the world – reflect on ideals – others position on your work
· Interviews, essays, narrating and siting work in wider context
· Recording embellishing, collaborating, visual or textual story telling
· Cataloguing or selling for commercial gallery
· Way to make you visible
· Portability – calling card – outward facing
· Index/contents
· What, when, where, why?
· Lists of artist in alphabetical order
· Artworks listed as caption with name, title, date
· Books works
· Printed Matter
· Loose Joints
· The Everyday Press
· Tate Publishing
· Rope Press Birmingham
· Fraser Muggeridge studio
· Camden Arts Centre
Zines: self-published, as its happening, resource to explore attitudes at the time – archival piece.
Photocopied, collaged, paper, one offs. Application – communicate new ideas
Punk era – anti-establishment – anarchy – self publishing
Studio Yukiko – design studio
Happy Hypocrite: Maria Fusco
Experimental art writing – setting set of rules – create series of publications
Wolfgang Tillmans: On the verge of visibility – publication accompanies the exhibition
Ruth Ewan: - uses archives on overlooked histories – free publications that can be downloaded as a PDF
Jeremy Deller – social engaged practitioner
Creating publication in response to the work he has made
Ed Ruscha’s Photography Books
Capture US culture
Manifestos:
Including your own manifesto into your thinking or content of publication
Political form – modern era – form changes – revolution, political systems – used for shock effect
Statements or bullet points – clearly define an ideology for successful distribution – to publics – share ideas and ideologies
Tristan Tzara – how to make a Dadaist poem. Always right, strong, vigorous
and logical – a cure
Cauleen Smith – Covid manifesto – projected onto screen – complication of small statements
Manifesto turns into moving images – video capturing process of writing
Role of manifesto
· Inspire
· Inform
· Offend
· Educate
· Guide
· Erntertain
· Undermine
· Written
· Sculpted
· Performed
· Acted – filmed
Julian Rosefeldt – collected range of manifestos – both historical and individual – idea of collectivity
Film work and installation – to manifesto Is to perform
Help define interests and cement ideas – provide structure and guide for practice – mechanics of practice – what underpins your practice – what motivates you? What annoys, frustrates or intrigues you? Activate your context – how does your ideas connect to borader contextual issues
Dieter Rams – 10 principles of good design – value system – can translate into shapes and objects
Series of principles that are timeless
Ukeles – care manifesto – feminist beliefs – engaging with galleries through site specific interventions
20 additivist manifestos – additivism.org
Ideas: 3d printed found object such as found concrete – remade in different materials e.g. resin, bronze, silver, concrete, plaster – all held on metal stands – placed onto a stand – shelf
Algorythm – way in which economies operate – predictable
Artemenko.net
Isms – manifesto generator
Metahaven sprawl space – collective
Webenact.rhizome.org
Pawel Sysiak – what really matters – using graphic language to portray ideas
Bob and Roberta smith – all schools should be art schools – pseudonym – activist position
Grayson Perry, red alan manifesto
The Stuckist Manifesto
Excessivism Manifesto – pull together commonality between different artists in exhibition
Shared beliefs and ideas
Andrew Dadson – leaner – canvases
Superflat manifesto – Takashi Murakami
Marina Abramovich – an artists life – spoken – performative – contention – truly real
Lecture 3 Publications
issue of legacy – mark made by humans – mark-making – art as legacy
looking back at publication as reflection of where you are – personal record
book as an object to gift – e.g. a small a6 portfolio book – list of works and information
artist websites – seen as curatorial perspective – how websites change over time – PDF download – mini booklet of artists work – downloaded by anybody – form of distribution – reflection on development e.g. Jacob Carter 2020-2022 selected works – could be A6 with sets of artwork and text – could have pages to notate on – could include a ‘property of ….. if lost please return to’ section . could be ring bound so as to cut out pages or make own artwork or random objects with artwork such as a mug with a manifesto on it or a tea towel – chopping board. Packet of sweets – very kitsch
Make sure it functions in the way you want it to – getting yourself noticed – email someone a PDF – sit down for a coffee with someone you want to talk to about your art
Dieter Roth 1971 – Eight Books – collected works – how is art distributable – influenced by Dadaists
Sequence of production – systematic conceptual production of book – collected printed materials – found stuff that would be produced as publications – artists having recipes – Little Tentative recipe – 1968 – handmade books
Recognition of preciousness of materials – very sincere in way he collects objects – disruption of coherence of work and image and information – deconstructing the coherence of something – provides a reason for someone to physically engage
Copley Buch – collection of notes and doodles around the production of a publication – e.g. instructions for printing books
Included a bibliography – different material components – collections that do different things. Conceptual artists – poems of everyday life and also how work is produced
Using a box and having a collection of material – how people physically engage in work – allowing viewer to become the maker – sense of play – curation of books
Tavares Strachan
Multiplicities of information. Idea of an encyclopaedia – form of information – A-Z about specific history or subject – content fixed in time – no new knowledge
Encyclopaedia Britannica – who produces history and knowledge.
Made his own encyclopaedia – created own history – covers broad range of entries
Overlay graphics – word puzzles – resource book
Rosemarie Trockel: Book Drafts
Based around design and sketches – used as form to overcome procrastination
Books as proposals for content yet to be made – potential of something that could be
Ibrahim El-Salahi – prison notebook
Describes architecture of space in which the artist found himself in – routines and practices
More diaristic and sketchbook like
Jonathan Monk The project book project
Collection of photocopies of objects and images that are an influence on his own work – idea of appropriation – reference book of his contextual interests – influential book – pulled out aspects of his practice
Lucas Somaras
Dadaist – critique of the on institution – operating in legacy of Dadaism
Giorgio Vasari – first art historian – design book – structural framing devices
Student examples
Georgia – used as a resource book for an installation
Fae – ended in producing another publication
Project book – understanding where the work will be used – rich content
Socially engaged book – getting feedback or involvement with groups of people
Story telling – individual making – can be documentation of artworks and personal writings
Use of workshops – use this as a stepping stone to research in practice
Finding your passion
Leah Woolford – Birmingham in Yellow
Collection of photos of yellow objects – obsession
Idea: image of fragments – print on demand – thinking of book in 3 dimensions
Connection between image and colour – other pieces of information that become invisible
Data collection – artists obsessed with colour
Publication can be politically motivated – about a personal interest – an obsession with something – a behind the scenes influences – an art book – seduction through colour – depiction of every day life – combing of colour and mathematics
Initial Ideas
Process:
Using in design to create book
spent a considerable amount of time documenting professional images of my artworks and collating these together
Testing the layout of images - where they sit on the page and their sizing
Font design and colour - interested in using brown font so that it is more accessible
Testing out size of borders and space between images
Testing out the formatting of text - where is it aligned to - testing the line spacing and spacing between characters. Also test if text is in a role or displayed in columns
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